How to solve "pdftk: Bad CPU type in executable" on Mac?

Question

I want to use pdftk but I always get this error zsh: bad CPU type in executable: pdftk I reinstalled pdftk and I changed the terminal from bsh to zsh as I found in my search for how to solve this error but without any success. I'm using the latest MacOS version "Catalina v10.15.4"

Answer 1

This version of pdftk works on macOS Catalina (10.15).

https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/pdftk_server-2.02-mac_osx-10.11-setup.pkg

The link on the website is not up to date. That means by clicking the download button on the website you get an old version.

Answer 2

Homebrew:

brew install pdftk-java 

https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/pdftk-java

Compatible with Catalina, Big Sur